Nobody had tried to push the Land Speed Record over 200mph—let alone with a four-ton, 23-foot 6-inch car powered by engines displacing nearly 45 liters. Everything, from the coupling shaft to the ...

Chris Raschke of the Speed Demon Racing Team died Sunday while attempting to break a land speed record at the annual Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week in Utah. Reports claim the veteran racer lost ...

A racing driver was killed as he attempted to break a land speed world record on Sunday, after he lost control of his vehicle at speeds approaching 300 mph. Chris Raschke, who was 60, was ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (CNN) Danny Thompson, son of racing legend Mickey Thompson, will have to wait another year to write the family name into the official record book at the Bonneville Salt ...

Dennis Zainfeld's Smart car in the driveway offers little clue. At 8 feet long, it's a fraction of the beast inside that is his real baby: a 28-foot-long aluminum splinter that Zainfeld believes will ...

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...